Marmots* and “Evidence-Based” Medicine
While I understand the reasoning behind evidence-based medicine (EBM), common sense tells us that no rules are going to correctly fit a situation 100 percent of...
While I understand the reasoning behind evidence-based medicine (EBM), common sense tells us that no rules are going to correctly fit a situation 100 percent of...
The United States infant death rate has always been far higher than that in other developed countries. Now researchers are finding that in the United States, th...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is constantly coming up with ways to cut payments to physicians in the name of improving health care qualit...
It’s hard enough to get an appointment with a primary care physician, but when that primary care physician recommends your seeing a specialist, getting that app...
In my previous post, I talked about the problems with using “evidence-based” medicine to constrain patient care and avoid dealing with the complexity of ...